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unusual facts about Duff-Gordon baronets


Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, 3rd Baronet

Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, 3rd Baronet (3 February 1811 – 27 October 1872) was a British civil servant and baronet.


Alexander Ludovic Duff

Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff GCB GBE KCVO (20 February 1862 – 22 November 1933) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.

Alfred Cooper

He was devoted to his wife Lady Agnes Duff, the youngest daughter of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife by his wife, Lady Agnes Hay, daughter of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and granddaughter of King William IV by his mistress, the actress Mrs. Dorothy Jordan.

Androw Myllar

M. Claudin, who discovered them, and Dr. Dickson have ascribed them to the press of Laurence Hostingue of Rouen; but Gordon Duff has produced evidence to show that they should rather be assigned to that of Pierre Violette, another printer at Rouen.

Arthur Duff

In 1937 Duff joined Radio Éireann as the station's first music producer and went on to become assistant director of music in 1945.

Arthur Grant Duff

In 1906 Arthur Grant Duff married Kathleen, younger daughter of General Powell Clayton, who had been U.S. Ambassador to Mexico when Grant Duff was posted there.

Car Trouble

Despite his appearance and behavior, Duff accepts, and they head to Saint Louis to deliver the car, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, to a woman named Rosalie Hopgood.

Charlie Chan Carries On

Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in Behind That Curtain, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan.

Company A, Arizona Rangers

During January and February 1864 the company operated as part of a command under Colonel James Duff 33rd Texas Cavalry near Indianola, Texas.

David Gwillim

His sister Sarah-Jane Gwillim and half brother Jaxon Duff Gwillim are also actors.

Donal IV O'Donovan

3) some daughters, the eldest of whom Elizabeth married Sylvester O'Sullivan, head of the sept MacFineen Duff of Derreenavurrig in Kerry, by whom she had numerous issue.

Duff Beer

Duff Beer UG applied for an EU Community Trade Mark (CTM) in 2009, which was opposed by Twentieth Century Fox.

Earl of Fife

In 1889, Alexander Duff married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of the future King Edward VII; two days after the wedding, Queen Victoria elevated him to the dignity of Duke of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind

Duffman, who was hired by Marge to entertain at the party, brings out a bottle of Duff Champagne.

Femme for DKNY

Duff also has a multi-guest arc in Season 3 of Gossip Girl which will air around the time when the clothes hit stores.

Geof Manthorne

He met Duff by being in the same music social group and through Mary Alice's brother, Neil Fallon, the lead singer of the band Clutch.

George Duff

Born at Banff, Scotland, the son of Banff Sheriff Clerk James Duff (1729–1804) by his marriage to Helen Skene 1734–1764, he was a kinsman (first cousin once removed) to the second and third Earls of Fife.

James C. Duff

James C. Duff is the president and CEO of the Freedom Forum, the nonpartisan foundation dedicated to the First Amendment and media issues and which runs Washington, D.C.’s Newseum, the First Amendment Center, and the Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

James Duff Duff

Duff was the son of Colonel James Duff, a retired army officer living in Aberdeenshire, and Jane Bracken Dunlop.

James Duff, 4th Earl Fife

Thereupon Duff sought distraction in 1808 by volunteering to join the Spaniards in their war against Napoleon.

James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres

Hugh Lindsay (1765–1844), married Jane Duff-Gordon, daughter of Hon. Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville,and had issue.

Jeff Duff

Duff's Ground control to Frank Sinatra project merges the styles of David Bowie and Frank Sinatra.

Jocelyn de Angulo

He is the ancestor of the Costello/Mac Goisdelbach, Mac Jordan Duff, Mac Phillip, de Bhaldraithe/Mac Bhaldrin/Waldron clans of County Mayo.

John Lewis Ricardo

In 1841 he married Catherine Duff (c.1820 – 1869), the daughter of General Sir Alexander Duff and sister of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife.

John S. Gilmore

The most influential of which is the 1975 book Boom Town Growth Management: A Case Study of Rock Springs – Green River, Wyoming (with Mary K. Duff) (Westview, Florida Press).

Kells, Dumfries and Galloway

The estate subsequently belonged to the Gordons, of Lochinvar, of whom Sir John was created Lord of Lochinvar and Viscount Kenmure, in 1633; but it became forfeited to the crown in the time of William, the sixth viscount, who was attainted for his participation in the rebellion of 1715, and beheaded on Tower Hill, London, in the following year.

Kevin Rahm

He also played Norvo Tigan, the brother of Nicole de Boer's character of Ezri Dax, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Prodigal Daughter"; "psychic-guy" patient Mr. Duff in the Grey's Anatomy episode, "Save Me"; the driver in the 2001 VW Jetta ad, "Big Day"; and the groom in the Apple iDVD ad, "Elope".

Lady Diana Cooper

Following Duff Cooper's retirement in 1947, they continued to live in France at Chantilly, until his death in 1954.

Little Voice

"The Little Voice", a 2000 song by Sahlene and covered by Hilary Duff

Lockhart Duff

Lockhart Duff, (1793, Scotland - 11 February 1858, Hamilton, Ontario) was a Landowner.

Māori people

Once Were Warriors, a 1994 film adapted from a 1990 novel of the same name by Alan Duff, brought the plight of some urban Māori to a wide audience.

NewSouth Books

They have published works of fiction by Hans Koning and Gerald Duff; books of poetry by Andrew Glaze, John Beecher, Jorge Carrera Andrade, and Tom House; biographies of famous Alabamians like Sen. Howell Heflin, Gov. John Malcolm Patterson, and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Black; and memoirs by Civil Rights figures Attorney Fred Gray and Rev. Robert Graetz.

Party Like a Rockstar

That remix has been unofficially called the Orpinz Old Duff WWE Remix because some feel it resembles a professional wrestlers entrance music.

Patricia Duff

She was then married to Washington, D.C. attorney Daniel Duff from 1980 to 1985, and then to Orion Pictures and later TriStar Pictures CEO Mike Medavoy from 1986 to 1994.

Patrick Ryecart

He was one of the lead characters in the BBC TV comedy series The High Life playing Captain Hilary Duff.

Peggy Duff

Briefly working with Victor Gollancz again, Duff became the secretary of the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, set up in August 1955, in part, as a response to a number of controversial executions (including that of Ruth Ellis).

Noam Chomsky called Duff, "one of those heroes who is completely unknown, because she did too much," and stated that "she should have won the Nobel Peace Prize about twenty times." He described her as a "leading figure," in both the CND and the anti-Vietnam War movement.

Potamkin Prize

2006: Karen Ashe, MD, PhD; Karen Duff, MD, PhD; and Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD

PS Duchess of Montrose

From 14 July 1915 she was stationed at Dover under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Duff Thomson Royal Naval Reserve and from April 1916 she was stationed at Dunkirk.

Rafter H Entertainment

R.H.E. has so far produced two feature films: Material Girls where Duff serves as producer with her sister and mother, and Greta where she is credited as executive producer.

RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1

In the 2012 television series Titanic, Lady Duff Gordon (Sylvestra Le Touzel) was shown urging her secretary Laura Francatelli to get in the boat by saying, "Don't be a fool Francatelli, this boat Lifeboat isn't sinking, that one Titanic is." She was later shown telling the officer to allow some men to board, including her husband, then forcing the officer, alongside Cosmo, to lower the boat.

In a deleted scene in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (Martin Jarvis) and Lucille Duff Gordon (Rosalind Ayres) are shown to be sitting in Lifeboat No. 1 with their secretary and a few crew members, when Fireman Hendrickson urges them to help people in the water.

Rocket Queen

Steven Adler would take a drum solo in the middle of the song while the band was supporting Appetite For Destruction in 1988, which expanded to included Duff McKagan on an additional drum kit and Axl Rose playing bass when the band opened four dates for The Rolling Stones in 1989 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The Thorn

Filmed in 16mm on a shoestring budget, the crew included Paul Josephson on camera and lighting, Craig Reynolds and Jay Cassidy on camera, and Jon Duff on sound recording.

The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room

The Hilary Duff Version is similar to "Billy Joe McGruffy" on the movie Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie This C.D was certificated Gold.

Thomas E. Duff

On August 18, 1943, Duff and the 87th Infantry Regiment landed in the first wave on Kiska.

Veterans Today

Veterans Today lists as its editorial board of directors former members of the U.S. military Gordon Duff (senior editor and chairman of the board), Major Bobby Hanifin, James H. Fetzer and Clinton Bastin; former members of intelligence agencies Lt. General Hamid Gul (Pakistan), Col. Eugene Khrushchev ((former)Soviet Union), and Jim W. Dean (managing editor), Gwenyth Todd and Leo Wanta (United States); as well as Jeff Rense, Carol Duff, Khalil Nouri and Michael Harris.

Willie Duff

During the 1950s, all British men were obliged to fulfil a period of national service and in the latter part of 1956, Duff received call-up papers to the army's Royal Horse Artillery, based in Surrey.


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